YANGON, Myanmar - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unsatisfied with the progress of her meetings with a representative of Myanmar's military junta and cautions the public to "hope for the best and prepare for the worst," a member of her political party said Wednesday.

Suu Kyi, who was allowed to meet earlier in the day with executives of her National League for Democracy party, is unhappy that there is no deadline for the talks to achieve any results on bringing about democratic reform, said party spokesman Nyan Win.

Western nations and the U.N. pressed the junta to hold talks with Suu Kyi after the regime's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters last year.

The junta appointed a ministerial- level official, Aung Kyi, to meet with her. The two met Wednesday for the fifth time after Suu Kyi's meeting with party colleagues.

"What I can say is Daw Suu is not satisfied with the current meetings with the junta, especially the fact that the process is not time-bound," Nyan Win said. "Daw" is a term of respect for older women in Myanmar.

She said "we should hope for the best and prepare for the worst. We have to be patient as we have sacrificed for many years," he added.

There was no immediate comment from the government on the meeting, which took place at a military guest house in Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon.

Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is under house arrest, said Aung Kyi insists political change must wait until the government completes its "roadmap to democracy," a position she described as "totally wrong," Nyan Win said.

The seven-stage roadmap is supposed to lead to free elections at an unspecified point in the future. A military-led national convention laid down guidelines for a new constitution, which is being written by a committee hand-picked by the government.

Government critics say the process is undemocratic, and note that the guidelines would bar Suu Kyi from office while allowing the military to retain a substantial political role.

Suu Kyi also said members of Myanmar's fractious ethnic minorities must participate in the talks if there is to be progress in restoring political stability.

Her complaints are in contrast to her optimism in November, when she met with her party colleagues for the first time more than three years.

Myanmar has been in a political logjam since 1990, when the junta staged general elections but refused to let Suu Kyi's party take power after it won. It instead stepped up a campaign of harassment and arrests of party supporters.

In September, the junta suppressed the biggest pro-democracy protests in two decades. At least 30 people are believed to have been killed and thousands detained, though most have since been released.